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On 07/04/2013 01:32 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
       <SNIP>
>
> Well, if I ever have more than 63,000,000 variables[1] in a function,
> I'll keep that in mind.
>
     <SNIP>
>
> [1] Based on empirical evidence that Python supports names with length at
> least up to one million characters long, and assuming that each character
> can be an ASCII letter, digit or underscore.
>

Well, the number wouldn't be 63,000,000.  Rather it'd be 63**1000000

I probably have it wrong, but I think that looks like:

859,122,207,646,748,720,415,212,786,780,258,721,683,540,870,960,267,706,738,947,655,539,422,295,787,680,882,091,181,482,626,114,653,152,637,456,091,641,990,601,474,111,018,521,295,858,424,750,289,461,372,414,431,396,326,232,796,267,104,001

variables.  (The number has 180 digits)

--
DaveA